Nature fascinates me. It always has. Based on the number of animals kept as pets worldwide I seem to be in good company. The number of pets that we share our homes and lives with opens up a wide array of questions.

Some questions that are core aspects to my research are:

How did domestication shape/change our animals?

Did domestication change our domestic animals’ larynx and acoustic behaviour?

How does artificial selection in domestic animal breeds affect both their acoustic behaviour and laryngeal morphology?

How do we communicate with our domestic animals?

I did my PhD in the field of bioacoustics in domesticated animals at the University of Vienna at the Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Biology. I then continued as a Postdoc at the Institute of Animal Welfare Science at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna. Now I’m based in the US as an Assistant Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.